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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.772S, 127.508WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/03/19 / 2019-03-27 21:42:03 / March 27, 2019 @ 9:42 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 06:42:03 / 6:42 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 131 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ka5j. Id of event: us2000ka5j. Exact location of event, longitude 127.508 East, latitude 1.772 North, depth = 131 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.508° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.772° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 131 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km W of Tobelo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-27 21:42:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-05 02:01:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 284 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.003 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000ka5j Id of event.
Event Code 2000ka5j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ka5j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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